Want to test your knowledge of local history? Have a go at our long-running weekly quiz compiled by John Abberley.

1. Which three of the six Potteries towns opposed the Act of Federation in 1910 right to the end?

2. Where would you find a house in Stoke-on-Trent which was built during the reign of King James 1 (1603-1625)?

3. Leek's traditional name of Capital of the Moorlands was slightly altered by Arnold Bennett in his novels. What did he call it?

4. Which 15th-century confrontation between two armies in North Staffordshire is commemorated by a stone monument called Audley's Cross?

5. A parish in the Potteries called Scelfitone was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1088. Can you guess what that district is called today?

6. In the early years of the 20th century North Staffordshire's largest colliery employed more than 3,000 men and boys. Which one was it?

7. Can you name the celebrated British composer who conducted the first performance of one of his choral works at the Victoria Hall, Hanley, in 1896?

8. In 1949 Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle played host to their first royal visitor of the post-war era. Which member of the royal family came unaccompanied?

9. Who was the only former Stoke-on-Trent city councillor to serve as chairman of Stoke City Football Club?

10. Which Potteries sporting star competed in the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles at 18, again at the Berlin Olympics in 1936 and finally at the London Olympics in 1948?

Answers to last week's quiz

1. In 1907 the Duke of Sutherland offered to hand over Trentham Hall to mark the impending Federation of the Six Towns, but the gift was rejected.

2. Dresden-born Haveregal Brian, who died in 1972, was the prolific composer of 32 symphonies, five operas and over 100 songs.

3. Samuel Taylor drew workers from South Staffordshire when he opened a chain works at Ford Green in the 1890s. The products included the anchor of the ill-fated Titanic.

4. Before he was elected Conservative MP for Macclesfield, Sir Nicholas Winterton contested the Newcastle seat against Labour's John Golding in 1969.

5. After he moved to London in the late 1880s, Five Towns novelist Arnold Bennett received a parcel of Potteries oatcakes sent to him by train every Friday night.

6. In the 17th century Izaak Walton fished in the River Dove at Beresford Dale with his fellow writer Charles Cotton.

7. On October 13, 1915, the 5th Battalion North Staffs Regiment lost more than 500 men in a bayonet charge at the Hohenzollern Redoubt during the Battle of Loos.

8. In the late 18th century Dr Samuel Johnson stood in the market place at Uttoxeter as a penance for disobeying his father 60 years earlier.

9. The pottery firm which had strong links with Stoke FC in the early 1900s was the former Crown Devon works owned by the Fielding family, two of whom played for the club.

10. The first player to be banned for life from the North Staffs and South Cheshire Cricket League in the 1960s was the West Indian Test bowler Roy Gilchrist.